Matthew Bible study resources

March 11, 2019 Michelle

Below you are going to see all the resources we used to study Matthew’s gospel.

This was the first book of the Bible that we read and studied coming out new age things (law of attraction/manifesting) and some
”christian” pastors teaching the prosperity gospel.

We are sharing our journey of reading the Bible for the first time as we want to know the truth of God’s Word.

We are not experts just two girls who love Jesus and have a deep desire to know God’s word and truth — here to encourage you to read your Bible. When you hear or read things, even from us, do your own research and check what the Bible says.

And remember we are still learning and please give us grace.

When we started our journey we had an online business called Move Live Faithfully.

We now share our workouts and Bible studies for free on our youtube channel (Lori and Michelle) and podcast - Sisters and the Bible.

When was the gospel of Matthew written and who is the audience:

Some believe Matthew was written after Mark and before the destruction of the temple, and was written between 50-60 AD

Other scholars believe it was written after the destruction of the temple in 70 AD.

And some believe it was the first one written.

Matthew’s audience was the Jews. and Jewish Christians.

Matthew helps them see Jesus was the son of God, the promised Messiah and what God’s kingdom look liked.

It has a lot of Jesus’s teachings and showing all the prophecies He fulfilled and how Jesus lived out every part of the Hebrew Bible.

Matthew bible study resources and overview of the gospel

Some things to pay attention to as you read Matthew are:

repeating words
themes - like the 2 kingdoms, the outsiders are in
characteristics of Jesus
all the prophecies
son of Man
judgment
truly I tell you
Kingdom of heaven like
how different people react to Jesus

Resources to help with the overview of Matthew:

The at a glance sheet are from Teach Sunday school – we looked at the Matthew book, author Matthew and some of the characters from NT

The Gospel of Matthew: Overview | Whiteboard Bible Study

Overview: Matthew 1-13 https://youtu.be/3Dv4-n6OYGI from the Bible Project

Overview: Matthew 14-28 https://youtu.be/GGCF3OPWN14 from the Bible Project

One Hour. One Book: Matthew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLoQu1AhIAE&t=41s

This podcast on Matthew – https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/podcasts/help-me-teach-the-bible/douglas-odonnell-on-matthew/

Sermon: The Melodic Line of Matthew — Douglas Sean O’Donnell | Book Overview

ASL | The Bible Explained: Matthew

Spoken Gospel – Matthew

Now for the resources we used when we studied Matthew for the first time starting in the fall of 2020:

Book:
The only written commentary we have is the – Be Loyal – NT Commentary on Matthew by Warren Wiersbe (links to our Amazon store and if you purchase we receive a small commission at no cost to you. Thank you for your support as it helps keep creating Bible studies for you.)

We read other commentaries off APP, mentioned below.

APPS:

Blue Letter Bible – We use this APP the most. We use it a lot to get cross-references, dictionaries, text commentaries and audios from pastors teaching on scripture. This APP has a lot of great things including a Greek concordance. You can also view everything on their website it you don’t want to download the app. I, Michelle, read the Matthew Henry commentary on Matthew as well as David Guzik.

Then we later found David has a website sharing commentary on Matthew – Enduring Word.

Logos Bible – It has a lot of tools, we find new ones all the time. For Matthew, we used it searching for passages like I want to see all the scripture on love. Allows for more pictures, maps and things. We used the Faithlife study bible inside it for Matthew.

Strong’s Concordance – we use to look up words used in the scripture – although we now tend to use the Blue Letter Bible for that. So we don’t use this that much.

The pastors we listened to while we studied Matthew for the first time that teach it verse by verse: Please remember all that we list here is not all the resources on Matthew, it was just what we choose to use studying the first time. Since we studied it and recorded our Bible studies, we have learned more and found more resources. But that’s the beauty of this, you always are growing and learning while reading God’s word.

The Word for today app (Chuck Smith)

Exploring Strange Bible podcast ( Tim Mackie) – has some Matthew episodes

He also has a youtube channel if you prefer video:

Tim Mackie Archives – Matthew videos

Door of hope – Matthew series

Harvest Family Fellowship – Matthew audio series

Calvary Church FL – Matthew series

Other resources we came across later in our study:

One Hour. One Book- guy that we mentioned above had other videos we watched. Here are other sermons we listened too from him, he does not have every chapter :

Jesus and the Kingdom (GCBI 108.05) – https://youtu.be/C9u49DEn91Y
Jesus and the Law (GCBI 108.03) https://youtu.be/0b1Sm0_fqOA
Jesus and the Discipleship Standards (GCBI 108.04) https://youtu.be/TxFtLWBoiEo
Jesus and the Pharisaic Conflict (GCBI 108.07) https://youtu.be/a2cq70TQdLE
It Happened One Sabbath, Pt. 2 (GCBI 108.09) https://youtu.be/Za28qci363U

The Plot against Jesus – David Platt – https://youtu.be/HgiLKFfJlmM

Apologia Studio – They have a Youtube channel that we watched some of their sermons on Matthew, mostly around chapters 23 – 27. In our end times page you can see all the videos we watched, plus under each of our Matthew Bible study videos we list all the videos we watched for each chapter.

FAI App plus they have a Youtube, again you will see them listed mostly around Matthew 24-25 and some end times videos.

And Jen Wilkins Bible study on Matthew – we discovered this toward the end so we didn’t get to listen to them all, and for someone reason no longer available or we can’t find them anymore.

Then we discovered a new podcast after we studied and filmed all of our Matthew Bible studies and at the end of studying Mark) is the BEMA podcast with Marty – we highly recommend! Season 3 he goes through Matthew.

We learned new things that changed how we see Matthew.

But we hope all this shows you just to get started with reading the Bible and understand it is a journey of learning the Bible!

And as we re-share our Matthew Bible studies we are adding in BONUS Bible studies sharing new things we have learned…and we continue to learn new insights into the gospel of Matthew that are blowing us away.

We working on a digital download sharing the cool connections in Matthew to the Old Testament.

Bible study workouts – Matthew

Are you ready to grow closer to God while listening to God’s word, the book of Matthew while working out?

We pray these scripture infused workouts bless you and your life as it has ours. God is so good and faithful. The more you show up and want to grow closer to Him, He will reveal more to you.

CLICK HERE FOR ALL THE MATTHEW HOME WORKOUT FOLLOW ALONG VIDEOS

Verse-by-verse Bible study – Matthew

CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL OF OUR MATTHEW BIBLE STUDY VIDEOS

Or you can listen wherever you like to listen to podcast - Sisters and the Bible podcast

Remember we don’t read the Bible to gain favor from God or check off any boxes. Rather see you being disciplined to read God’s word to know more about HIM.

It took us a whole year to read it, so no rules or anything here. You can check out our video here sharing our experience of reading Matthew one year later.

We recommend you read the chapter or verses before you watch our videos. As it is important you have your own alone time with God and His word. Then watch our videos and join in on the discussions.

Thanks for being here and studying Matthew with us for the first time.

We hope this serves you in your walk with Christ.

3 years later we have discovered more things about Matthew as we continued studying the Bible.

We didn’t know about patterns in the Bible, also know as chiasms:

Other resources:

Marty’s youtube -kingdom series

Masterpiece Bible playlist of how Matthew retells the entire OT

Below we share the additional resources we used and shared about in our Bonus Matthew Bible studies:

Matthew chapters 1- 4: (some of them will be used for other chapters as well)

When the Heavens are Opened: This Is My Son | Matthew 3 | Tim Mackie

The Shepherds and the Wisemen

Who Were the Magi and Why Are They In the Bible?